$$ & Imagination

One thing I really 

love

about boys?

Their imaginations!

I was talking to Trent

about the 

March Madness bracket

and he decided

he wanted to join in.

So, we sat down

and he filled out

a bracket on his own.

Earlier in the day

we had discussed $$.

We had been at WM

where he saw a bicycle he really wanted.

He also wanted to play games,

but Mom had no quarters.

We talked about all

the money he had been saving

for almost four years

in his piggy banks.

I told him 

he could start bringing his own quarters

to play games

and even save them to

buy his own bike.

He LOVED the idea!

So, after filling out his bracket

I told him he could use his own 

money to enter the contest.

He got very excited and ran 

to get the money.

He handed it to me

and I proceeded to explain

that if he won, his money

would increase.

But, if he lost,

he got no money back.

He got upset and yelled

"But I need it for my bike!"

I was so

1. proud of him for wanting to save for something so big

and

2. empathetic to that pitiful sad face 

that I 

told him to put his money

away for the bike

and I fronted the money for the bracket.

So, 

now he has been helping lots

around the house 

to earn just a little more for that bike.

I love the help,

and he gets super excited about quarters!

A new bike is in the near future!

love, the rockinryans